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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I had that happen years back. I had a front bridge that fell out. It was a temporary bridge, but still annoying.
I now have no original teeth, with full lower dentures, and a partial upper denture anchored to a couple of permanent crowns. The final straw for me was when a supposedly permanent crown fell out because the root it screwed into deteriorated.
I told my dentist "I got bad teeth from both sides of the family. Mom and dad both had full upper and lower dentures when they died. My remaining original teeth are going one by one, and all you are doing is delaying the inevitable. How about we skip over the going one by one part and go directly to where I will end up anyway?" She agreed it made sense, and it took a bit, but that was what happened. Aside from having to carry dental cement with me and refreshing it on the lower plate before I eat so my teeth don't float around in my mouth, it's trouble free.
The fortunate part was that I had very few actual toothaches. The teeth just crumbled away. My dentist was surprised but pleased at the relative lack of pain. She couldn't possibly be more pleased than I was...
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Dennis
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I am afraid the tooth around the rod is also deteriorated. how do they fix something like that? The dental cement from CVS is not holding the tooth so I will be reglueing it in over and over till I can get to a dentist